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Also Known As	Liberal Judaism

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Columbus Platform Judaism Zionism Bene Israel Orthodox Judaism Karaism Reconstructionism Beta Israel Conservative Judaism Mizrahi Jew Sephardi Shabbetaianism

Key People

Baeck, Leo

Leo Baeck

German theologian

Kaufmann Kohler

German-American rabbi and theologian

Abraham Geiger

German theologian

Samuel Hirsch

American religious philosopher and rabbi

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